From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>, "tuhs@tuhs.org" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: virtual consoles / Alt-Fx
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:41:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfqqJ2cphd1EbsC87bLOKJWpM56Lv-EZB95A1p08S9kBXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2N5bxcvRzbzOwx68o=yAgJVJmabFn8V6_P1k65zT6gT4A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 9:24 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> FWIW I think Minix for the 8088 may have supported them - be
> worth checking.
>
Minix 1.1 and 1.2 didn't have them. Unsure of later versions since they
aren't packaged nicely for quick checking.
Coherent didn't seem to have them, but it's kinda hard to tell for sure
without more study.
> My bet would be to look at ITS, WAITES and Twenex for the origin story.
>
TOPS-20 had a way to attach and detach from a PTY. But they didn't keep
the state of the screen... programs did, but not the kernel.
Warner
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-13 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-13 15:12 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2023-03-13 15:24 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-03-13 15:27 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 16:17 ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 15:41 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2023-03-13 15:48 ` KenUnix
2023-03-13 15:48 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-13 16:14 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-13 17:26 ` Miod Vallat
2023-03-13 20:35 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-14 16:42 ` Derek Fawcus via TUHS
2023-03-14 22:46 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2023-03-15 4:26 ` Heinz Lycklama
2023-03-13 15:27 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 15:30 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-14 3:27 ` Rik Schneider
2023-03-13 15:33 ` Ron Natalie
2023-03-13 15:45 ` Heinz Lycklama
2023-03-13 17:04 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 15:49 ` Brad Spencer
2023-03-17 8:14 ` Marc Donner
2023-03-14 3:33 Rudi Blom
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